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by almenon 1016 days ago
Relevant: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/6400/are-tidal-p...

This theory is very interesting, although the author presents it with too much confidence for such big claims.

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In that link:

> The Earth's rotational kinetic energy is about 10²9 J, and the world uses something like 10²² J/year, so you could power the entire world for millions of years before you'd run out of rotational energy.

(my phone somehow has a ² but not a ^9; the first number is supposed to be 1e29)

Here are some Unicode exponents for your future needs: ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹
What about dozenal?
It's really not very common in typical online writing about science and engineering, but I'm happy to share ᴬᴮᵃᵇ and ₁₂ in case they're also useful to anybody.